I am a PhD candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering with Prof. Dinesh Bharadia at UC San Diego. I received my MS degree from New York University and B.Tech. degree from IIT Kanpur, India. My research spans diverse areas in ECE, including Wireless Communications and Networking, Signal Processing, and Security \& Privacy. My research is both theoretical and systems-oriented and has been published in leading venues such as Sigcomm, NSDI, Mobicom, Infocom, and IEEE journals.
I am a recipient of the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship 2022 and VMWare research grant 2023. I received the Best Poster Award at Hotmobile 2023 and won the 3-minute competition at ACM student workshops thrice. I also served as co-chair for the ACM Mobicom S3 workshop 2023.
Feel free to email me (ikjain@ucsd.edu) if you are interested in my work!
I am in the academic job market in 2024! Please get in touch with me if you have any potential opportunities.
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The next generation of wireless networks would connect billions of devices using existing and limited natural spectrum resources, all the while making it secure and sustainable with limited power and antennas. My research takes a holistic approach to optimizing these resources to deliver not only high data rates but also enhance reliability and scalability and facilitate practical deployments. Moreover, as the wireless infrastructure is deployed ubiquitously in both indoor (e.g., WiFi) and outdoor (e.g., 5G cellular) environments, there is an opportunity to provide sensing services alongside data communication, eliminating the need for additional sensor deployment. By leveraging existing wireless infrastructure, my research focuses on developing radio-frequency-based sensing solutions such as localization and tracking of mobile devices. Furthermore, my research recognizes that as communication and sensing systems become more accessible, they are vulnerable to security threats such as spoofing and jamming attacks, so I designed and implemented appropriate measures to counter these attacks.